Brocard Les Clos Grand Cru Chablis 2011

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Brocard Les Clos Grand Cru Chablis 2011 Front Label
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Vintage
2011

Size
750ML

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Winemaker Notes

The largest and best situated of the 7 Grands Crus, the Les Clos vineyard is situated on 10% south facing slopes to the north west of Chablis town. It produces dry, generous and rich wines which improve after a few years, retaining their minerality and power.

This gently pressed grapes undergo natural yeast fermentation followed by full malolcatic fermentation and 18 months maturation period on the lees in foudre. The resulting wine is as dynamic as it gets - spicy, rich, and mineral-driven with an aging potential of up to 15 years or more.

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    The Brocard 2011 Chablis Les Clos – raised largely in foudre – leads with an assertive and strikingly-scented spray of lemon oil, fusil oils, fennel pollen and chalk dust. Behind that, salted, herbed chicken stock mingles with a juicy abundance of fresh lemon on a polished and uplifting palate, leading to a mouthwatering finish to which hints of iodine and apple pip help add invigoration and intrigue. This should remain impressive through at least 2022.

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Some twenty years ago, Jean-Marc Brocard chose to establish his estate in Préhy, a small village near the town of Chablis.... At that time, one of his in-laws, Louis Petit, taught him about the vine and at the same time instilled a deep sense of tradition and respect for nature. Boosted by this knowledge and determined to dedicate himself to a vineyard, Jean-Marc Brocard planted a hectare of vines within the appellation of Chablis.

As a perfectionist, Jean-Marc Brocard naturally erected his purpose-built cellars in the centre of his vineyard to give the grapes his constant attention. Such dedication together with the best quality Chablis soil produce an exceptional wine with a typical mineral style. It is elegant and full of character. Jean-Marc Brocard’s boundless dedication to wine has borne fruit: the Brocard estate now comprises 80 hectares of vines, 65 of which are adjacent to the cellars.

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One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.

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The source of the most racy, light and tactile, yet uniquely complex Chardonnay, Chablis, while considered part of Burgundy, actually reaches far past the most northern stretch of the Côte d’Or proper. Its vineyards cover hillsides surrounding the small village of Chablis about 100 miles north of Dijon, making it actually closer to Champagne than to Burgundy. Champagne and Chablis have a unique soil type in common called Kimmeridgian, which isn’t found anywhere else in the world except southern England. A 180 million year-old geologic formation of decomposed clay and limestone, containing tiny fossilized oyster shells, spans from the Dorset village of Kimmeridge in southern England all the way down through Champagne, and to the soils of Chablis. This soil type produces wines full of structure, austerity, minerality, salinity and finesse.

Chablis Grands Crus vineyards are all located at ideal elevations and exposition on the acclaimed Kimmeridgian soil, an ancient clay-limestone soil that lends intensity and finesse to its wines. The vineyards outside of Grands Crus are Premiers Crus, and outlying from those is Petit Chablis. Chablis Grand Cru, as well as most Premier Cru Chablis, can age for many years.

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